Sovereignty in Exile : A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs / Alice Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Alice, author.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence.

The Ethnography of Political Violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polisario.

Jumhurīyat al-Ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʻArabīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah.

Sawhrawi (African people).

Civil rights movements--Africa, North.

Civil rights movements.

Western Sahara--Politics and government--1975-.

Western Sahara.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tracing social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees, Sovereignty in Exile reveals the dynamics of a postcolonial liberation movement that has endured for decades in the deserts of North Africa while trying to bring about the revolutionary transformation of a society which identifies with a Bedouin past.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: The Social Relations of Sovereignty

PART I. ASPIRATIONS

Chapter 1. Hindsight Visions: Tribe and State Power as Projects of Sovereignty

Chapter 2. Revolutionary Foundations: Unmaking Tribes and Making State Power

PART II. COMPROMISES

Chapter 3. Unpopular Law: Tribal, Islamic, and State Law, and the Fall of Popular Justice

Chapter 4. Tax Evasion: Appropriation and Re distribution Without Tax or Rent

Chapter 5. Managing Inequalities: Organizing Social Stratification, or Marriage Reinvented

PART III. DILEMMAS

Chapter 6. Troubling Markets: Tribes, Gender, and Ambivalent Commodification

Chapter 7. Party- less Democrats: Electing the Best Candidate or the Biggest Tribe

Conclusion: Revolution as Moral Contract

Appendix 1. Notes on Transliteration and Transcription

Appendix 2. Tribes in Western Sahara

Notes

References

Index

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 13. Sep 2017)

ISBN:

9780812293159

OCLC:

1004875617